Publications by authors named "Nikhil Choudhary"
Article Synopsis
- - Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is common in India but faces significant care delivery challenges due to the country's lower middle-income status, with physicians noting inconsistent practices and a lack of dedicated programs for managing the condition.
- - Interviews with doctors revealed that frequent causes of PH included rheumatic mitral valve disease, coronary artery disease, and congenital heart disease, but diagnostic procedures and treatment protocols were often insufficient or varied.
- - Major barriers to effective PH management include limited physician training, absence of tailored treatment guidelines for lower middle-income countries, and socioeconomic factors affecting patient access to care and understanding of the disease.
Tuberculosis presenting with myocarditis and severe systolic dysfunction is rarely reported. So far, only a few cases were reported from India. Our aim is to report this rare presentation of a common disease that we encountered at Narayana Multispecialty Hospital, Jaipur.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Persistent organ failure is a feature of severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) and the leading cause of death. Although usually defined by hypotension, cardiovascular dysfunction (CD) in early SAP has not been well characterized. We aim to characterize CD in patients with SAP and hypotension and determine its impact on clinical outcome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Recent studies have shown that subclinical inflammation is a part of type 2 diabetes mellitus. This study was designed to explore the relationships between low-grade inflammation and renal microangiopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Materials And Methods: Sixty patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus were included in the study and further divided into normoalbuminurics, microalbuminurics, and macroalbuminurics, of 20 patients each.
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystem disease of autoimmune origin. Vasculitis is often seen with SLE, but is usually limited to small vessels alone. The primary pathology in SLE-related vasculitis is leukocytoclastic vasculitis.
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